Customer Reviews

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This is a nice little companion EP to the Meat Beat LP "At the Center". A couple of remixes and a couple of live versions(with one being a live version of Prime Audio Soup). A must have for avid Meat Beat fans and a pretty good little EP.

After listening to "At The Center" several times I liked it, but it sounded unfinished. On this single there are tracks that continue the direction that Jack Dangers is heading. In my opinion, I would of included these tracks (minus the live recordings) and called "At The Center" a complete album. It's a pretty good single with some great tracks like "Postcards." Meat Beat Manifesto puts out great music, bottom line. So if you are a devoted fan you will like this music. Why four stars? Well, there are only three tracks of new material.

If you liked MBM's "At the Center" and are left wanting more when the disc plays out, then this EP is for you. Personally, I think the jazzy direction MBM took with that album was one of their most refreshing and enjoyable experiments yet, so this EP has been a welcome addition to my collection.

I agree with the previous reviewer, however, that most of these tracks should simply have been included on "At The Center" in the first place to make it a more complete album; tracks 2-4 would have been perfectly at home on the album, while the live stuff is kind of unnecessary (save it for a live album, Jack!) and the remix of Wild, while not bad, is not as gripping as the original.